[News] I used to think the term ’Judeo-Nazis’ was excessive. I don’t any longer.

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I used to think the term ’Judeo-Nazis’ was excessive. I don’t any longer.
Adam Horowitz
December 8, 2023
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Photo shared by Jerusalem’s Deputy Mayor Arieh King on social media of over
a hundred naked Palestinians who were kidnapped by the Israeli military in
Gaza, December 8, 2023

The late Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz applied the term “Judeo-Nazis” back
in the late 1980s when he referred
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM2fXTkjU2E> to former Supreme Court Judge
Meir Landau, who effectively legalized torture, by that description. He
made his arguments strongly: “The State of Israel represents the darkness
of a state body, where a creature of a human form who was the president of
the Supreme Court decides that the use of torture is permitted in the
interest of the state.”

I took it as a kind of moral exaggeration. It was bad — Palestinians were
being tortured systematically, but somehow I thought, we’re not quite as
genocidal as Nazis.

But today, I feel differently. Yesterday, Jerusalem’s Deputy Mayor Arieh
King tweeted
<https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-municipality-official-calls-burying-alive-subhuman-palestinian>
a photo of over a hundred naked Palestinians who were kidnapped by the
Israeli military in Gaza, handcuffed, and sitting in the sand, guarded by
Israeli soldiers. King wrote that “The IDF is exterminating the Nazi
Muslims in Gaza” and that “we must up the tempo”. “If it were up to me,” he
added, “I would bring 4 D9’s [bulldozers], place them behind the sandy
hills and give an order to bury all those hundreds of Nazis alive. They are
not human beings and not even human animals, they are subhuman and that is
how they should be treated,” King said. He ended by repeating Netanyahu’s
biblical Amalek genocidal reference: “Eradicate the memory of the Amalek,
we will not forget.”

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While Israel called it a “Hamas roundup
<https://mondoweiss.net/2023/12/operation-al-aqsa-flood-day-63-israeli-army-rounds-up-strips-and-blindfolds-civilian-men-in-gaza-takes-them-to-unknown-location/>,”
the men and children in those photos, as young as
<https://twitter.com/ajenglish/status/1733109148592812277>13 years old,
were doctors, journalists, shopkeepers, and other civilians who had sought
refuge in UNRWA schools in Beit Lahia. They had been arbitrarily kidnapped
and separated from their families.

King’s tweet had been reposted by Middle East Monitor and was apparently
just over the top for X, as it seems to have been removed by the platform.
But not to worry: this morning, King tweeted again
<https://x.com/arieh_king/status/1733019431838560437?s=20> with the same
photo and others (of naked Palestinian boys and men on trucks), this time
opening his post with a biblical quote referring to Amalek, perhaps in
order to confuse the algorithms. He quoted from Deuteronomy 25, 19:

“When the Lord your God gives you rest from all the enemies around you in
the land he is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you shall blot out
the name of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!”

Still, King found it necessary to emphasize the current relevance, lest it
be too vague:

“Hundreds of sons of Amalek, Muslim-Nazis, what do you think their judgment
should be?”

So, it is clear that we are really in Nazi times, and it really does bring
associations of the Holocaust. This rhetoric and these deeds are now
everywhere. Today, journalist and media host Yinon Magal (who was formerly
a lawmaker in Naftali Bennett’s Jewish Home party and hosts a radio show
with Ben Caspit on centrist Maariv 103FM radio) tweeted the same photo with
a split screen featuring a 1967 photo of Palestinian prisoners (notably,
dressed), and wrote that “history repeats itself.” He could just as well
have used a 1948 Nakba photo or, for that matter, a Holocaust photo. Magal
just does not seem to get the irony: history, indeed, repeats itself.

Yesterday, Magal tweeted
<https://x.com/YinonMagal/status/1732787329238995368?s=20> a photo of some
of these naked boys and men as they sat on the razed street in Beit Lahiya
and seriously asked, “why aren’t there women in the photo.”

It’s hard to even get around all of the layers of perversion here.

Earlier yesterday, Magal shared
<https://x.com/YinonMagal/status/1732652279461757102?s=20> a video of
Israeli soldiers in Gaza singing and dancing, and he typed the words of
their genocidal song approvingly:

*“I have come to conquer Gaza *
*And hit Hizbollah on the head*
*And only adhere to one mitzvah [deed]*
*To eradicate the seed of Amalek*
*I have left my house behind*
*And will not return until victory [is achieved]*
*Everyone knows our slogan*
*There are no uninvolved”*

These are not just the chants of some kids on the hills. They are soldiers
in Gaza — the same soldiers perpetrating this horrific genocide right in
front of our eyes. Those cheerleading them in explicitly genocidal terms
are not just far-right fanatics either; this spirit is everywhere.

I am speaking to some fellow activists who find it really hard to cope with
this. We can hardly follow the horrors, the rising death toll — while U.S.
officials say that the Israeli assault might continue in its current mode until
the end of January
<https://mondoweiss.net/2023/12/operation-al-aqsa-flood-day-61-u-s-believes-israels-gaza-invasion-could-last-until-the-end-of-january/>
and then continue with a “lower-intensity, hyper-localized strategy.”

How on earth can this genocide continue with the whole world watching, we
ask ourselves? Well, the answer appears to be that it is continuing
precisely because the whole world has chosen to watch it rather than stop
it. This is on us all.
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